GCU Forum - Craiglist challenge

Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Craiglist challenge Sep 30^th, 2008, 3:00pm I suggest each one of us, in our respective cities, put an ad on Craigslist for GCU. say something like, "Attn: Artists" and then describe GCU. Also put in your store URL. It would be interesting to compare store visits after the ad is posted and see if it generates any interest. Hey, it's free!
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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #1 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 1:04am Mine more than doubled.
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Tom_133317 Gold Member artist Posts: 2207	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #2 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 2:35am What Craigslist category Angela? - there's tons! Good idea! Also, we can place the ad to many cities in our respective states. Minnesota has the 5 major urban centers on Craigslist so I plan to post 5 ads. TOM
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Leslie_134775 Junior Member artist Posts: 67	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #3 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 5:10am Hi, after reading Angeals post, I placed an ad for London as there wasn't an option for a bigish city here in Yorkshire. I'm sure I read somewhere on the site that they like to keep the ads as if they are local so they treat multiple ads from same person placed in many areas as spam. Hope I'm wrong as it's a great idea. Les.
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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #4 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 5:46am Yes, you are not allowed more than one ad at a time, so that's why I sugested everyone get on board : ) I put mine under "arts and crafts".
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Delores_132508 Gold Member artist Posts: 978	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 8:28am Thanks for the tip, Angela. I had never considered Craigslist before. I just placed an ad.
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Tom_133317 Gold Member artist Posts: 2207	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 9:15am Mine for today. http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/art/862271817.html What's cool is you can upload up to 4 images right from your 1500x2100 stock. No need to resize. TOM
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Nasser_16

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Re: Craiglist challenge
Reply #7 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 11:57pm

Great idea. Tom, you may want to mention "Send as many or as few cards as your like, i.e. cost for one card personalized and mailed is $2.79 + 42 cents postage. " Many shoppers assume that you have to buy a larger quantity.

BTW, once you place your ad, you may want to include the link in your forum posting, like Tom did. This will help it get picked up by google bots, since they're always cruising GCU and the forum.

Keep up with the clever ideas

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Re: Craiglist challenge
Reply #8 - Oct 2^nd, 2008, 12:03am

Angela, Thank you for posting on Creigslist, I'm on the list for Kansas City.
I'm a computer novice so it was probably me, but I ran into some problems so I thought I would post this.
1. The full store URL---If any one has a long store name it gets cut off. If you try to use the short GCuniverse with your store name it won't link. It has to be only www.GCuniverse.com.
2. The four images are limited in mega bites as a whole----4.395 for mine was to large so I picked diferent images, 2.202 worked but was very slow uploading.

Question: We can only pick one city----can we change the
city each week or every two weeks so we could end up covering our whole state?
Norval

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Leslie_134775 Junior Member artist Posts: 67	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #9 - Oct 2^nd, 2008, 1:23am I think you have to wait 48 hours between each posting. Les
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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #10 - Oct 2^nd, 2008, 2:18am Actually, it's 45 days between posts, but you could lways delete one after a few days and put it in another city's postings.
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Leslie_134775 Junior Member artist Posts: 67	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #11 - Oct 2^nd, 2008, 2:21am oops.
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nicole_133673 Full Member artist Posts: 118	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #12 - Oct 3^rd, 2008, 6:30am I just went to check Tom's ad and it has been flagged for removal Has anyone else been deleted? (PS Leslie, I got your last email and will add you to squidoo I lost power so I havent had a chance to get back to you) Now I am off to do some ghost hunting at Eastern State Penitentiary
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Delores_132508 Gold Member artist Posts: 978	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #13 - Oct 3^rd, 2008, 8:09am I just checked Tom's ad. It's still there and there is no flag on it now. The one that I posted for the Orlando, FL area is still up also.
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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: Craiglist challenge Reply #14 - Oct 3^rd, 2008, 8:56am I don't know why someone would flag it, but even if it's flagged they wouldn't remove it if it's not against rules (which I don't see why it would be). Mine's up.
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